The deadline is March 24 at 11:59 PM!DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 27th! The Contest is March 30th.

I will be sending confirmation emails throughout the week as I get to them.

The rules are as follows:

1. No nudity, or excessive gore/violence. Keep it PG-13.2. Run time may be anywhere between 1 minute and 6 minutes. This will be strictly enforced.3. Each entrant is permitted a single entry per category. 4. Acceptable footage includes Anime and Japanese Video Game footage. 'American' anime such as Afro Samurai, Animatrix, etc. is accepted, so long as it is animated by a Japanese Animation Studio.5. Audio must be primarily music and may not include excessive dialogue/narration. The exception is videos that qualify as "trailers."6. Entries will be sent through an upload site such as Rapidshare, or through the AnimeMusicVideos.org catalog. With the exception of AnimeMusicVideos.org, one should not have to register or pay anything to be able to download a video. If we find it's behind a registration wall/paywall, we will ask for another link. If you do not provide one, you will be disqualified.7. The categories will be Action, Drama, Upbeat/Dance, Romance/Sentimental, Comedy/Parody. Trailers should be entered in the category most closely related to subject matter. Categories that do not receive at least 4 entries may be merged with their nearest counterpart. This may also happen if one category is disproportionately smaller than others. If you submitted to more than one category, and categories you submitted to end up merged, both your entries will still be counted, provided they both become finalists.9. The contest will be screened at a resolution of 720x480. Entrees not in this format will be scaled appropriately, so it is strongly encouraged that entrees submit in this format. In addition, please ensure that your video is flagged for 4:3 playback. If it is flagged in 16:9, then everything will appear stretched out when we play it. We highly recommend you letterbox the footage ahead of time. We will do what we can, but we can't promise anything.10. Videos will be played back as either MPEG's or MPEG-2's. Videos that are not submitted to one of these formats will be converted into MPEG-2's. Entrants are strongly encouraged to submit in 720X480 4:3 Flagged MPEG-2, at either 29.97 fps, or 23.976 with 3:2 pulldown selected (see Scintilla's guide link below for the best way to do this). If you are encoding in MPEG-2, please encode your audio as MPEG-1 Layer 2 or AC3. MP3s, WAVs, and others will not work and we will be forced to convert them.11. We accept the following frame rates: 23.976, 24, 25, 29.97, and 30. If your submission is not in one of those, it will be rejected outright.12. We accept the most file formats and methods of compression, however, we will not accept .mov or .wmv files. If you are using Windows Movie Maker, please output to AVI. If we are unable to convert to .MPG, we will attempt to contact you. There is a file-size limit of 2 Gigabytes.13. No studio bumpers or official logos. If we can't remove it, and you can't get us a backup, the video is disqualified.14. No audio from the official English dubs.15. Entrants who knowingly attempt to circumvent these rules will have ALL of their submissions disqualified.16. Videos will be accepted regardless of past victories in other contests, as long as they have been made between March 24th 2012 and March 24th 2013. NO ANTI-TROLLING RULE THIS YEAR!17. We reserve the right to reject any video for any reason whatsoever.

Send your submissions to anime@cnu.edu with the subject line "AMV CONTEST ENTRY." If you do not submit it with that subject line, there is no guarantee we will enter it. Videos should contain either the studio name or the name you want to appear on the ballot, followed by a dash and a video title, like this: "Studio name - Video Title.mpeg"

In your email, include a link to download your video, and a TEXT FILE containing the following:Name (Please use your real name)Video TitleSource AnimeSong UsedSong ArtistCategory desired (we reserve the right to change this)Email (again, this is in case we have to contact you. We will not give away your email for any reason).Address (so we may mail prizes out, should you win)Are you attending the con? (Y/N).

We will email you when we have received and tested your entry to play on our system. The later you send your entry, the later we will get back to you. If you send at the last minute, you will NOT receive confirmation until after the deadline has passed, and you won't be able to resubmit if something goes wrong, so get it in early! THERE IS NO DEADLINE EXTENSION, BECAUSE THERE WILL NOT BE ENOUGH TIME TO TEST NEW ENTRIES!

Contestants found to be falsifying information will be disqualified.

Awards include first place in each category, Best in Show, and Coordinators choice.Each category winner, along with Coordinators Choice, shall receive a $10 gift certificate to Amazon.com, with the Best in Show receiving a $25 gift certificate. There shall be no prizes for runner ups this year, however, if this contest is well received and the convention is successful enough, expect prize value to increase in the future.

NOTE: PRIZES SHALL ONLY BE AWARDED TO UNITED STATES CITIZENS! If you live in the US, we'll mail it to you. Cost and legal issues prevent us from mailing it elsewhere.

We have an XBOX HUEG time slot allotted, so its highly unlikely any video will be rejected outright. However, if we receive like a million entries, finalists shall be determined by a panel of four judges, including myself. Judges shall be barred from voting in the final contest however. Entrees will be examined based on originality, editing skill, video/audio output quality, and entertainment value.

HEY GUYS! THANKS FOR READING THIS FAR! I apologize for the delay in getting this up, we were trying to time it with a massive website update. Unfortunately, that has turned out to be a giant clusterfrak. Regardless, all of you helped us hold a tremendous contest last year, so lets make this one just as awesome! Thank you and happy editing!

So prizes were going to be mailed out this week, but I seem to have come down with a lingering illness that just won't go away. To top it off, Krigen somehow managed to convince me to take part in a 10K walk/run. This turned out to be the best idea ever a terrible mistake.

Prizes will mail out sometime next week, provided I am still alive. I apologize for the delay.

I sincerely apologize, I had completely forgotten to ensure the prizes were send out. I am sending them all out first thing Monday morning. If any of you do not receive them within one week, PM me and I will resend them.

Due to the difficulty of acquiring gift cards of values less than $25, all prizes have been bumped up to $25 Amazon gift cards. I hope that makes up for the delay.

I am already working on rule changes to next years contest, and am personally working on a solution to the website troubles we had this year. There was some wonderful feedback this year and I hope to improve the contest greatly. If any of you have suggestions about potential rule changes, feel free to send them my way.